The English Understand Wool
We don’t deserve Helen DeWitt but we should read her constantly.
Leo Costelloe Bow Pin
Still thinking about this brooch-y pin from the delightful Lottie + Doof 2025 gift guide
It's Her Factory by Gang of Four
This is both a very good post-punk song featuring the melodica and the origin of my social media handle.
The American Friend
Wim Wenders adapts Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game as an existential thriller so thick with atmosphere that—per Roger Ebert in his 1977 review—“we’re almost swimming in it” <<LAPL has 7 copies of the Criterion DVD!>>